Re: [patch] Re: massive memory leak in 2.3.23?

Mike Galbraith (mikeg@weiden.de)
Sun, 24 Oct 1999 16:57:04 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > Is anyone else seeing a rather serious leak in 2.3.23? I just got
> > IKD running and was doing some testing when suddenly the box went
> > terminal OOM. Memleak says it's pte_alloc()'ed memory being leaked.
>
> thanks for the info, does the attached patch fix the leak?

Yes it does.

memory.c:1018: 444 -2 -5 -1 -3 7 DELTA: -4
memory.c:1158: 26 1 -3 2 -2 0 DELTA: -2
memory.c:214: 39 0 0 0 -2 1 DELTA: -1
memory.c:734: 10 1 -1 1 0 -1 DELTA: 0
memory.c:811: 311 -2 -6 0 -4 4 DELTA: -8

-Mike

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